05 Strikers at the gate
Carmen, near Davao City, Mindanao
Farm workers on strike against the U.S.-based Dole Corporation stand on the
bridge at the entrance the Diamond Farms banana plantation. Armed guards
hired by Dole, along with Philippine army units, expelled the workers from
the plantation, although they became owners of the land under the agrarian
reform law in 1996. At the gate, a sign announces that the plantation is
private property, and forbids the workers from entering.